Ever notice that no matter where ANYONE is on the Enterprise, there's always a turbolift?

[HopeHoops]

They just walk in, expecting one to be there. Nobody ever falls down a shaft or gets squashed between an incoming turbolift and the entrance wall.

It doesn't matter how many turbolifts go to the bridge, there's always room for one more. If only elevators worked that way.

[rug]

1. Yet, I have never seen a toilet on the Enterprise.

Do they just stick their asses in a transporter and energize?

[HopeHoops]

2. LOL! Agreed. Have you seen the out-take from "Galaxy Quest" with Dr. Lazarus in his quarters?

It is the one where Quillic shows Dr. Lazarus to his quarters, demonstrates the spike bed, and then shows him the toilet. He mentions that the "historical documents" never showed the use of the waste elimination facilities so they had to guess.

[rug]

3. Ooh, I'll have to look for that on youtube.

[sarge43]

5. That scene is worth the price of the DVD alone.

"You're very complicated, Dr Lazarus."

[tigereye]

4. yeah, the whole lack of bathroom thing started to irritate

me after a while. People did have showers and giant hot tubs, though. :rofl:


Obviously I need to get a life!

[Recovered Repug]

6. ST:NG had one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKQzZfpaz8

[Orsino]

7. Clearly, the turbolifts are also rest rooms.

"Deck three."
"Bridge."
"Deuce."

[Xithras]

8. As I recall from a read of a friends copy of Mr Scotts Guide to the Enterprise....

Turbolift tubes carry more than one passenger car, and are equipped with facilities that allow them to pass each other as needed. Turbolift entrances are also equipped with motion detectors. When the turbolift detects someone approaching, it automatically summons the nearest car to "prime" that turbolift for potential use. Turbolift elevators are spaced so that no lift entrance is ever more than a few seconds away.

When the inevitable conflict does happen (two lift tubes are approached, two decks apart, by two different people), priority is granted by rank. Because the ST shows primarily dealt with the bridge crew, they always had turbolift priority and it was rare to see them waiting for one. You didn't see the red shirt waiting for the turbolift while struggling to hold his 90 pound plasma junction seal because the camera was busy following the captain as he made his way from shagging the hot green Orion chick in his quarters to hanging out and getting sloshed in 10 Forward. HE got the turbolift because of his rank, while the poor working stiff had to wait.

[MilesColtrane]

9. I believe the correct terminology for a hot, green Orion chick is, "Funyun".

[krispos42]

10. *snort*

:spray:


Three Musketeers on my new wireless keyboard!

[gvstn]

17. Good God!

I've watched every Star Trek out there and I always thought it was Tent Forward.

Now I've got to wait for the next TNG marathon to cement it in my brain.

Thanks for the information. :)

[petronius]

11. That's not strictly true. Sometimes, when two people have to pause to compete

a particularly meaningful phase of a conversation, the turbolift doesn't open until it suits the plot. The computer is freaky smart that way...

[kentauros]

14. They did that in Babylon 5 all the time,

although for them it was more often waiting for the elevator to show up, than having conversations on a halted lift.

However, there is one really funny scene they did inside the elevator with G'kar and Londo that's worth seeing :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NsdQzoIXIE

[pokerfan]

12. McCoy had to wait for one in STII:TWOK

Kirk and Lt. Saavik had paused a lift to have "a conversation." When they were finished having "their conversation" they encountered a pissed-off McCoy, "Who's been holding up the damned elevator and why does it smell like sex?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPx-1LhMm5A#t=3m20s

[MrMickeysMom]

13. Yes, and ALL THESE YEARS, they've kept it secret...

.... HOW the replicators take the crews waste and re-process it into nummy food like substance!

That could have been an episode or two all by itself!

[HopeHoops]

15. Where do you think McDonald's got the idea for McNuggets?

[MrMickeysMom]

16. ...

Uuuhhhgghhh...bbbllllaaahhhupptt!

:puke:

[Alexander]

18. Those guys who work at turbolift control are there for a reason.

Now you might think "There are no actual people at turbolift control, it's all done by computer".

But Jean-Luc Picard tried to call turbolift control in the episode "Hide And Q".